Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Education, Apprenticeships and Training) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Speaker, I seek leave to move that the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship be required to explain to the House the contradiction between his answer to the House today with respect to the convicted Egyptian jihadist terrorist and his letter to the member for Stirling dated 10 May 2013.

Leave not granted.

I move:

That so much of standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the member for Sturt from moving the following motion forthwith:

That the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship be required to explain to the House the contradiction between his answer to the House today with respect to the convicted Egyptian jihadist terrorist and his letter to the member for Stirling dated 10 May 2013.

In the House today the minister said that he could advise the House that there had been no assessment in relation to this matter.

Ms Anna Burke (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Order! The Manager of Opposition Business will resume his seat. The Leader of the House has the call.

Mr Randall interjecting—

Order! The member for Canning certainly is not The Speaker. The Leader of the House has the call.

Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

There has been no lead-up whatsoever to this moving of a motion—none whatsoever. They have not prioritised this at all as an issue in question time and then they come in here and move a suspension. So I move—

Mr Pyne interjecting—

Ms Anna Burke (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The Manager of Opposition Business does not have the call. The Leader of the House has the call.

Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I move:

That the member be no longer heard.

Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Madam Speaker, I rise on a point of order.

Ms Anna Burke (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

There cannot be a point of order on the motion moved by the Leader of the House.

Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Madam Speaker—

Ms Anna Burke (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

There is not a point of order on the motion. The Leader of the House—

Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

No, but, Madam Speaker, it is open to you to refuse to entertain the motion from the Leader of the House, given the seriousness of the matter that is now before the House from the Manager of Opposition Business, and I respectfully—

Ms Anna Burke (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The Leader of the Opposition will resume his seat. That is not an option open to me. The question is that the member be no longer heard.

Is the motion seconded?

Michael Keenan (Stirling, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Justice, Customs and Border Protection) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I second the motion. A national security debate should not be gagged. We have a minister who cannot get his story straight. In question time today he said no assessment is proceeding on this.

Ms Anna Burke (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Order! The member will resume his seat.

Kelly O'Dwyer (Higgins, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Stop being a bully.

Ms Anna Burke (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The member for Higgins is warned.

Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Speaker, the government's position is that national security should not also be used to delay time until Malcolm Turnbull gets back for the MPI. That is what is happening here.

Ms Anna Burke (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Order! The member for Stirling has the call.

Michael Keenan (Stirling, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Justice, Customs and Border Protection) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Thank you, Madam Speaker. We have a minister on this matter who cannot get his story straight. He has told one version of events at question time and another in a letter to me on—

Ms Anna Burke (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Order! The member for Stirling will resume his seat.

Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Given the member for Wentworth will be back at 3.28 and able to do his MPI, I move:

That the member be no longer heard.

Opposition Members:

Opposition members interjecting—

Ms Anna Burke (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Order! The question is that the member be no longer heard.

Ms Anna Burke (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The time for the debate has expired.

Julia Gillard (Lalor, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I ask that further questions be placed on the Notice Paper.